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By Associated Press, Published: February 18, 2013

TEHRAN, Iran
— Iran’s state prosecutor
says the country’s Supreme Court has upheld death sentences against four people
linked to a $2.6 billion bank fraud described as the biggest financial swindle
in Iran’s
history.

Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei says the four were convicted of
being “corrupt on earth” for “disrupting” the country’s economy. He says the
court has ordered the verdict to be carried out but no date has been set.

Ejehei is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying that two banking
officials have been sentenced to life in prison while 19 others, almost all of
them senior government officials, were given prison terms ranging from 2 to 20
years.
Their trial last year raised questions about corruption at senior levels in Iran’s tightly
controlled economy.